Consultancy General Economics and Teaching

Trends in the development of 3D printing and its economic and political implications

Hristo Prodanov - University of National and World Economy
Received: 03 Jun 2022
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Issue 2/2019
JEL P16 L86 O25 O31
DOI https://doi.org/10.56497/etj1964205

Abstract

The paper examines the changes that have occurred in the political-economic systems of the fourth industrial revolution as a result of the introduction of 3D printers (so-called additive technologies). The emergence, nature and historical development of 3D printers are examined. The fields of their application, which are increasingly expanding, are analysed. Changes in the economic subsystem are outlined, which are assumed to require changes in the overall relationship between economics and politics, and thus transformations in political-economic systems. These changes are traced in terms of both the new challenges to which states will have to respond and the unfolding transformations in global divisions of labour and value chains that will have radical implications for the world's geo-economic and geo-political balances.

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